This offseason’s hot stove has been one of the slowest of all-time, with most of the game’s top free agents—Yu Darvish, Jake Arrieta, Alex Cobb, Lance Lynn, Greg Holland, Eric Hosmer, Mike Moustakas, J.D. Martinez, Lorenzo Cain, Carlos Gonzalez, Jay Bruce and Jonathan Lucroy—still on the market.

Some of the reasons for the deliberate start? Teams were waiting to see where Shohei Ohtani and Giancarlo Stanton were going to land. Also, Scott Boras represents more than half of the top-10 free agents and he has a long, successful history of taking his time, which has led to several record-breaking January deals such as Max Scherzer’s seven-year, $210 million contract with the Washington Nationals three years ago. Lastly, GMs want shorter-term contracts in exchange for higher average annual values (AAVs) considering the concern over all the recent long-term deals that have not worked out.

In the meantime, there has been some business done. Here are my offseason...

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